Human Rights

Inspirations in history such as Harriet Tubman and Mahatma Gandhi that have changed the world and have made such influential impacts are what is commonly thought of when human rights are mentioned. When growing up I was told stories by my great grandmother who lived to be 103 years of age and was a Women's suffrage in Britain in the 1900's after the first world war. She fought for the women's right to vote as only white males were eligible at the time. This is a huge mark in history as women begin to gain equal rights to men. Posters and banners were made and worn to spread awareness but some men still followed old traditions of the thought that women should be lead not be leaders. Thinking of the situation, it couldn't have been easy as ridicule and even fights were recorded where many didn't feel that it was right for a women to stand up with her beliefs. My great grandmother is an inspiration as this lead to many of the other rights that women now have and has personally inspired me by standing up for herself. the message to stand up for what you believe in is clear and this is really key in any situation for taking action.

Interdependence

" We have learned that we cannot live alone, at peace; that our own well-being is dependent on the well-being of other nations, far away.... We have learned to be citizens of the world, members of the human community."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Former US President, 1945.

This quote about interdependence is of great significance as it pertains to todays modern world as one large nation rather than independent countries. The quote was written in 1945 which suggests that if globalization was happening then, it must be very evolved by now. The fact in the first line of the quote confides that "we cannot live alone" and the reason that I am stating it as fact is because it is now a necessity in this world to be connected in order to survive. Without connections to other countries we wouldn't be able to live the lives we do to today. An example would be buying produce in the grocery store as without interdependence on other countries we wouldn't be able to go the the grocery store and pick up bananas any time of the year we like. However, if all the countries who are growing millions of bananas to provide for the world suddenly have a disease, no one will receive bananas. We are dependent on different countries to provide different luxuries and this is the point Roosevelt is trying to make when he says that "our own well-being is dependent on the well being of other nations". Each individual person depends on the world for its products. For example computers, all of the hardware inside of a computer is made in different factories as they are all specialized to handle the manufacturing of different parts. The factories are located in different countries which just shows that computers couldn't be in everyones home and be mass produced if interdependence wasn't possible. The last idea that I took out of this quote is that "we have learned to be citizens of the world". We are no longer citizens of individual countries but we are citizens of the entire world as the world is becoming smaller. In the "why the world is flat" lecture by Thomas Friedman this same idea is present in his thought of "Gloalization 3.0". He expands on the idea by saying that instead of countries and businesses globalizing, individual people are as well and this is the next step looking into the future.

AIC Reflection and the Europe Crisis

AIC Reflection:

The main goal I have been working towards with Syria is returning our oil trade from the EU. Oil is what supports Syria's main economy and what will help us make ties with the countries on our strategic goals list. One of our goals that pertains to the oil trade is our Human rights which we are wiring to improve. With this, it should aid the EU in supporting us to regain oil trade.

Europe Crisis:

Italy is causing fear among the eurozone with the idea that Italy is to big to recuse. This is effecting the world markets greatly as investor confidence has dropped due to the lack of bail out funds that are available. This scare has effected markets in Germany as they are main investors in the EU. Since the Prime minister of Italy Sivlio Berlusconi has resigned which is also causing a great scare. Since the EU put him in a catch 22 with the decision for a bail out he decided that it would be best to resign. Seeing as all of the European countries are connected through trade if one of these countries is suffering then they all suffer. It will be interesting to see who the new Prime Minister will be and how the rest of Italy and Europe take the transition.